suffering and lament
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Kingdom Encounters Podcast: Pastor Paul Hoffman
On this Kingdom Encounters podcast, Alexei Laushkin, founder of Kingdom Mission Society interview Pastor Paul Hoffman of Evangelical Friends Church in Newport, Rhode Island about his latest book Reconciling Places: How to Bridge the Chasms in our Communities During the interview we talk about: Who are the Evangelical Friends in relation to other Christian communities. How…
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Statement on Sunday Mass Attack in Egypt
Statement by Alexei Laushkin, Board Member, Kingdom Mission Society: We condemn the attack on St. Peter’s Church so near St. Mark’s Cathedral during Sunday mass. We add our prayers and join in mourning for our Coptic brothers and sisters. This attack was particularly meant to frighten and terrify the innocent. We join against the forces…
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A Consequence of a Divided Church
by Alexei Laushkin As many of us recover from Trump exhaustion and yet another shooting in Florida (click here), I want us to take a moment to think about a big picture problem that may not be as evident.Our lack of common language and its origins. I’ve recently been reading a book Good Faith by…
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What I learned from the worst prison in Mexico
By Brian Bakke My dear Mexican pastor friend Emilio Beltran (who has lived in the most notorious prison in Mexico for the past 6 years) handed me two Mustard Seed Foundation grant applications while we were meeting together in Reclusorio Oriente prison last month. I work for this Foundation, seeking out projects that we can…
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Christianity, Grief, and Deep Suffering
February 18 2016 by Alexei Laushkin There is one unifying problem that theologically conservative Christians in just about every culture struggle with: how to deal with grief, pain, and suffering. It’s odd for a tradition that devotes so many pages to the suffering of Christ to essentially learn very little about the nature of grief…
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Trump, Plato, Advent and Doubting Thomas
December 9 2015 by Alexei Laushkin This was an ugly week on the Presidential campaign trail. As a conservative it’s not my habit to call out a GOP candidate this early in an election, but this week one of the candidates was so vile it’s hard not to speak up. In case you missed it…
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Thanksgiving in the Midst of Suffering
November 3 2015 by Alexei Laushkin So, what about Thanksgiving in the midst of suffering? That’s something I’m reflecting on and how Christian worship guides us into a type of lament that leads to joy and healing/wholeness. I am spending sometime thinking about and listening to the interviews of Mahalia Jackson. Her last tour in…